Assistant Superintendent
Rankin ISD
Rankin, Texas
@MRinehartTX
Equity in Education: The Role for Leaders
Saturday8:15 - 9:15 a.m. | Level Three, Dallas Ballroom ABCDH
Education remains a particularly challenging and critical context for advancing equity. Now, more than ever, districts and communities need leaders who will advance equity in their local contexts. How can education leaders help their organizations aspire to equitable programs, practices and outcomes? What does it take to activate these aspirations within your organization and community? How can leaders act to advance equity? Explore why equity work is for all of us — and will require all of us.
Michelle Rinehart
Biography
B. Michelle Rinehart began serving as Assistant Superintendent at Rankin ISD in Texas in 2021. With a breadth of professional expertise across curriculum and instruction, instructional coaching, and teacher leadership, Rinehart is passionate about helping educators grow in their practice and grow in their leadership impact.
Rinehart’s T3™ journey started when a colleague introduced her to the TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator and the T3™community. As a science and mathematics teacher, the TI-Nspire™ and TI-Navigator™ technologies transformed Rinehart’s teaching practice. As a rural educator, the T3™community connected Rinehart with inspirational and innovative educators who accelerated her professional growth.
For the past nine years, Rinehart has served as a regional mathematics consultant and a project director for professional development programs in Texas. During this time, she has been actively involved in numerous capacities within the T3™community. She has served on a variety of professional development writing teams, created new activities for the TI-Innovator™ Hub with TI LaunchPad™ Board and TI-Innovator™ Rover, and advocated for partnerships between the T3™community and state-wide professional development programs.
Rinehart has also served as a keynote speaker at many regional, state and national events, as a T3™Advisory Council member, and as a T3™ Teacher Leader Cadre (TLC) co-leader. Rinehart speaks nationally about topics in mathematics and computer science education, including fostering teacher growth as teacher leaders, reflective practitioners and collaborative professionals. Rinehart recently served as a West Texas Team Leader for NCSM and on the Texas Association of Supervisors of Mathematics (TASM) board. She is currently a doctoral candidate in educational leadership at Harvard University.